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Fit For A King’s “Lonely God” leads their eighth album with themes of isolation and ambition. Alice Cooper’s “Wild Ones” revives his original lineup, drawing from 1950s rebellion. The Haunted’s “Death To The Crown” lashes out at political elites with relentless thrash energy. Rise Against delivers urgency with “I Want It All,” while DragonForce teams with Alissa White-Gluz on “Burning Heart.” Cradle Of Filth’s “Demagoguery” explores manipulation, and Katatonia’s “Wind Of No Change” leans into controlled tension. Lord Of The Lost, Pendulum, Ladrones, and A Tergo Lupi each embrace intensity in distinct subgenres. Here are the brand new hard rock, metal…. songs that caught, these past days, our aural interest and visual liking. Beware (possibly) NSFW |
48 . Fit For A King – Lonely God
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Date Added : Jun 7,2025
Fit For A King’s “Lonely God” arrives as the title track of their eighth album, preferring existential dread over radio edits. Recorded in Los Angeles with Daniel Braunstein—whose past credits include Spiritbox—the song critiques power’s isolating allure, where ambition leaves connection in the wreckage. Ryan Kirby stresses the creative process unfolded without commercial constraints, signaling a shift in the band’s usual calculus. Music video directed by : Max Moore 
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47 . The Original Alice Cooper Group – Wild Ones
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Date Added : Jun 7,2025
Pulling cues from the 1953 film The Wild One, “Wild Ones” spins a narrative of rebellion and discontented youth, echoing the attitude baked into the group’s early catalog. Snarling through Alice Cooper’s voice and Neal Smith’s drumming, the track doesn’t stray far from their 1970s mark. It arrives as the second preview from the album The Revenge of Alice Cooper, the first release by the original quartet in over fifty years. The video mixes studio clips of the reassembled band—Alice Cooper, Michael Bruce, Dennis Dunaway, and Neal Smith—with shots of motorcycles and sunburnt highways. Bob Ezrin, a familiar figure from their past, handles production duties once again. Song featured on the album : The Revenge Of Alice Cooper
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46 . The Haunted – Death To The Crown
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Date Added : Jun 7,2025
Released under Century Media in May 2025, “Death To The Crown” sees The Haunted trading subtlety for sheer force. Packed with jagged riffs and unrelenting drums, the track channels the band’s signature blend of thrash and melodic death metal into a scathing indictment of political elitism. Frustration pulses through every line, with guitarist Ola Englund describing it as a reaction to unchecked power and egos ballooning beyond consequence. Music video directed by : Ola Englund – Song featured on the album : Songs Of Last Resort
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45 . Rise Against – I Want It All
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Date Added : Jun 7,2025
“I Want It All” finds Rise Against returning to their signature fusion of melodic hardcore and politically sharp lyricism punctuated by charged guitars and unrelenting drums. The track marches forward with anthemic urgency, characteristic of a band that’s been fine-tuning dissent since their 1999 inception by Tim McIlrath and ex-members of 88 Fingers Louie and Baxter. Lean, forceful, and never veering into sentimentality, it slots easily into their canon of purposeful noise. Music video directed by : George Gallardo Kattah – Song featured on the album : Ricochet
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44 . DragonForce & Alissa White-Gluz – Burning Heart
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Date Added : Jun 7,2025
“Burning Heart” resurfaces in 2025 as a collaboration between DragonForce and Alissa White-Gluz of Arch Enemy. Her juxtaposition of guttural growls and clean lines shadows the band’s frantic guitar work with unexpected nuance. The music video—staged like a post-apocalyptic fairground—mirrors lyrics preoccupied with endurance and defiance. Herman Li credits White-Gluz for sharpening the edges of the track’s emotional pull. Music video directed by : Jake Johnston – Song featured on the album : Warp Speed Warriors (Special Edition)
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43 . Cradle Of Filth – Demagoguery
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Date Added : Jun 7,2025
Released in June 2025, “Demagoguery” follows Subject Eleven, a puppet figure steered by media and government hands, spiraling toward a symbolic rise of the Antichrist. Cradle Of Filth, formed in 1991 and fronted by Dani Filth, melds gothic, symphonic, and black metal into stylized sonic theatre. The track’s video paints autonomy as an illusion, with manipulated marionettes echoing modern power dynamics and a taste for the grotesque. Music video directed by : Shaun Hodson Aka Loki Films – Song featured on the album : The Screaming Of The Valkyries
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42 . Katatonia – Wind Of No Change
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Date Added : Jun 7,2025
Released digitally in June 2025 via Napalm Records, “Wind Of No Change” sees Katatonia folding cold, precise electronics into their signature shadowy sonics. The track leans into near-ceremonial restraint, suggesting less a gust than a suffocating stillness—calculated, deliberate, and quietly anxious. Vocalist Jonas Renkse leads a lineup including Sandin, Moilanen, Elgstrand, and Svalland, tracing the arc from death-doom roots into atmospheric territory. Music video directed by : Claudio Marino – Song featured on the album : Nightmares As Extensions Of The Waking State
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41 . Lord Of The Lost – I Will Die In It
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Date Added : Jun 7,2025
Released in May 2025, “I Will Die In It” channels Lord Of The Lost’s flair for melodrama through a punch of self-determined grit. Anchored by the blunt confession “I was not born in love, but I will die in it,” the track tests the line between emotional survival and theatrical flair. Chris Harms leans into defiant vocals, steering the Hamburg-founded group’s gothic-industrial-metal fusion toward personal affirmation rather than spectacle. Music video directed by : Vdpictures – Song featured on the album : Opvs Noir Vol. 1
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40 . Pendulum – Save The Cat
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Date Added : Jun 7,2025
Pendulum returns in May 2025 with “Save The Cat,” a snarling pivot into industrial chaos that opens their fourth studio effort—their first in 15 years. Rob Swire trades tuneful hooks for guttural screamo, channeling personal unrest into something closer to confession than performance. Produced with Owen Charles in their London studio, the track eschews polish, carving out space for raw dissonance over nostalgia. Music video directed by : Jason Baker – Song featured on the album : Inertia
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39 . Ladrones – Altar
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Date Added : Jun 7,2025
Released in May 2025, “Altar” finds Ladrones steeped in metalcore, fusing guttural riffs and syncopated rhythms with traces of contemporary Mexican heavy music. Rather than chasing sleek production trends, the track leans into a rougher aesthetic, foregrounding a tension between tradition and dissonance. Through their original compositions, the band continues to participate in the evolving sound of Latin American metalcore across the 2020s. Music video directed by : Omar Amaro – Song featured on the album : Mexican Pesado
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38 . A Tergo Lupi – Furia
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Date Added : Jun 7,2025
“Furia” marks A Tergo Lupi’s third release, channeling their signature blend of dark folk and neofolk into a brooding soundscape of ritual drums, tagelharpa, and choral layering. The lyrics flirt with themes of instinct, fatalism, and ceremonial inversion, threading echoes of both Nordic frost and Italian soil into their sonic palette. Composed by duo Fabio Del Carro and Camilla Margherita Ferrari, the track leans into their deep affinity for European traditional music.
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37 . BABYMETAL & Slaughter To Prevail – Song 3
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Date Added : Jun 1,2025
“Song 3” pairs BABYMETAL’s polished choruses with Slaughter to Prevail’s signature guttural charge, fusing kawaii metal and deathcore with equal parts contrast and complicity. Composed between the UK and Russia by Jack Simmons and Alex Terrible, the instrumental migrates to Japan where BABYMETAL applies its final melodic layers. Matt Heafy inserts himself via shamisen, lending an arch cultural wink amid relentless breakdowns. The video frames a bullied, younger Alex Terrible morphing—thanks to BABYMETAL—into something halfway between anime hero and raging banshee. The track marks BABYMETAL’s entry into the U.S. major label system via Capitol, the first Japanese artist granted a frontline deal. Music video directed by : Takasuke Kato – Song featured on the album : Metal Forth
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36 . The Amity Affliction – All That I Remember
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Date Added : Jun 1,2025
“All That I Remember” marks The Amity Affliction’s May 2025 single and introduces bassist and clean vocalist Jonny Reeves, stepping in after Ahren Stringer’s exit. Joel Birch’s lyrics pull no punches, wrestling with his fraught bond to his late mother, as encapsulated in the line: “The day you died was not the same / Day you were dead to me.” Siblings Beau and Chanel Birch add layers of context, lending familial resonance to the song’s emotional core. Music video directed by : Dan Daly
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35 . Igorrr – Blastbeat Falafel
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Date Added : Jun 1,2025
“Blastbeat Falafel” blends guttural distortion with oud flourishes, as Igorrr—helmed by Gautier Serre—returns with a culinary-metal concoction steeped in sonic chaos. Filigrees of oriental musical tradition clash with hyperactive breakcore, as guest turns by Trey Spruance (Mr. Bungle) and Timba Harris (Estradasphere) widen the track’s already unruly palette. Released in May 2025 via Metal Blade Records, the single continues Igorrr’s foray into genre collision following prior releases like “Savage Sinusoid” and “Spirituality and Distortion.” Song featured on the album : Amen
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34 . Halestorm – Everest
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Date Added : Jun 1,2025
“Everest” stands as the title track from Halestorm’s sixth studio album, released in May 2025 via Atlantic Records. Riding the momentum of lead single “Darkness Always Wins,” it clings to themes of resilience with the steely grip of someone scaling emotional cliffs. The track clads Halestorm’s hallmark hard rock in lyrics that push through adversity without asking permission—or forgiveness. Formed in 1997 by Lzzy and Arejay Hale, the band won a Grammy in 2013 for “Love Bites (So Do I).” Music video directed by : Djay Brawner – Song featured on the album : Everest
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33 . Avatar – Captain Goat
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Date Added : Jun 1,2025
“Captain Goat” marks a sonic shift for Avatar, offering a brooding blend of sea shanty cadence and metal textures. The single, released in May 2025, coils mythological and folkloric motifs around metaphors of Satan and the underworld. Its lyrics reflect on self-acceptance with a sardonic grin, threading reckoning through maritime gloom. In the video, the band slips into stylized undressing, which frontman Johannes Eckerström describes as oddly celebratory. Music video directed by : Johan Carlén
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32 . Dora Gaitanovici – Vând Ploi (w/ Adrian Despot)
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Date Added : Jun 1,2025
“Vând Ploi” pairs Dora Gaitanovici’s alt-rock introspection with Adrian Despot’s signature grit as frontman of Vița de Vie. Released in May 2025, the track circles themes of emotional transaction, its title suggesting rain is just another product to sell. Gaitanovici, a Eurovision 2022 representative and composition student in Bucharest, swaps theatrical longing for steely melancholy on this outing. Despot slides in with a voice that treats heartache like a bruised guitar string—strained but playable. Music video directed by : David Mogan |
31 . We Came As Romans – Bad Luck
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Date Added : May 29,2025
Opening with a ghostly vocal loop, “Bad Luck” slips into gear with jagged guitar riffs and a chorus that doesn’t ask for sympathy—it demands acknowledgment. We Came As Romans sketch years of personal attrition with a tight melodic grit, reaching back to their 2018 loss of Kyle Pavone without indulging the melancholy. Dave Stephens describes the lyrics as autobiographical, worn thin by years of misfortune wrapped in defiance. The refrain, “I spent all my life wondering why the bad luck always comes so easy,” offers less a complaint than a shrug delivered through clenched teeth. Music video directed by : George Gallardo Kattah
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30 . Daedric – Night Mother
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Date Added : May 29,2025
“Night Mother” by Daedric opens their second album with a discordant lurch, conceived amid production hurdles the band compare to being struck with a lamp at a party. Once tentatively titled “Nails,” the track filters early influences from Chinese opera through sharpened vocal tones, now polished into a serrated hook. The chorus – “I’m so naïve I would burn in a fire if you told me to stay” – lands squarely in the terrain of betrayal and cruel self-recognition. Daedric pivots here into a more caustic metalcore register, fusing electronics with guitars that jab rather than glide. Fronted by Kristyn Hope and produced by Clay Schroeder and Geoff Rockwell, the group codes the album’s central conflict between free will and fate directly into the track’s volatile structure. Music video directed by : Michael Levine – Song featured on the album : As The Light Left
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29 . Revnoir – Night Terror
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Date Added : May 29,2025
Released on May 15, 2025, “Night Terror” marks the fourth single from French metalcore outfit Revnoir, a group born from members of Merge and Alaska. Trading cinematic layers for serrated breakdowns and clipped screams, the track abandons the band’s earlier orchestral tendencies with surgical intent. Revnoir tilts back into harsher terrain, stitching dark electro undertones to a barrage of precision-engineered riffs and rhythmic punishment. Music video directed by : Pavel Trebukhin
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28 . Auri – Shieldmaiden
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Date Added : May 29,2025
Released in May 2025, “Shieldmaiden” by Auri sculpts its atmosphere with a slow-rising tension and a subdued mysticism that nods to its mythological title. Referencing the archetype of the female warrior, the track assumes a quietly commanding tone, more incantation than anthem. Troy Donockley notes it “has already escaped,” a sliver of music both elusive and insistent in its presence. Rated 8 on Metal Storm, it cruises through folk, progressive, and symphonic textures with no intention of declaring allegiances. Auri—formed in 2017 by Johanna Kurkela, Tuomas Holopainen, and Donockley—functions less as a side project and more as a subtle revolt against formula. Music video directed by : Ville Lipiäinen – Song featured on the album : Iii – Candles & Beginnings
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27 . Shadow Of Intent – Infinity Of Horrors
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Date Added : May 29,2025
“Infinity of Horrors” extends Shadow Of Intent’s penchant for fusing cinematic orchestrations with the density of deathcore, swapping subtlety for sheer scale. The Connecticut duo, once crafting Halo-inspired epics, now trades galactic lore for grandiose nihilism and sprawling technical arrangements. Punctuated by baroque chaos and guttural defiance, the track stays loyal to the formula honed across “Primordial,” “Reclaimer,” and “Melancholy.” Music video directed by : Marco Pavone
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26 . Pain – I Am
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Date Added : May 29,2025
“I Am” marks the return of Pain after an eight-year silence, reviving Peter Tägtgren’s industrial metal alias with sharper edges and a heavier pulse. Drawing from old-school industrial influences, the track fuses metallic riffs and electronics into a sound that both snarls and grinds. Released via Nuclear Blast, the album carries the same title and features guest contributions by Tägtgren’s son Sebastian on “Revolution” and “Don’t Wake the Dead.” Music video directed by : Andrey Kezzyn – Song featured on the album : I Am
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25 . Malevolence – Salt The Wound
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Date Added : May 29,2025
Released in May 2025 via MLVLTD and Nuclear Blast Records, “Salt The Wound” fuses Malevolence’s dense riffing with intermittent melodic passages. Alex Taylor’s vocals alternate between guttural intensity and clearer phrasings, underscoring this tonal duality. The video, filmed across Sheffield and Derbyshire, spans industrial backdrops and crumbling ruins, with guitarist Josh delivering a solo atop a misty peak. Music video directed by : Daniel Priess – Song featured on the album : Where Only The Truth Is Spoken
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24 . Heaven Shall Burn – Empowerment
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Date Added : May 29,2025
“Empowerment” marks Heaven Shall Burn’s 2025 release, pairing militant riffs with a manifesto of personal agency in the face of entrenched injustice. Unfolding with the urgency of a siren rather than a sermon, the single calls for transformation through inner resolve and shared resistance, not idle outrage. The video blends tour footage from South America, adding lived-in grit to the track’s call for solidarity over resignation. Music video directed by : Giacomo “Xjoshx” Giorgi – Song featured on the album : Heimat
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23 . Psycho-Frame – Blueprints For Idol Genocide
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Date Added : May 29,2025
“Blueprints for Idol Genocide” presents Psycho-Frame’s disdain with scalpel precision, taking aim at toxic personas embedded in the music scene’s machinery. Vocalist Michael Sugars lets corrosion do the talking, while Hunter Young layers in commentary on societal dysfunction with grim efficiency. Formed by members of Moodring, Vatican, and Warspawn, the band opts for a mix of sonic brutality and engineered clarity. Music video directed by : Salem Vex – Song featured on the album : Salvation Laughs In The Face…
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22 . Jamie’s Elsewhere – Traveler
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Date Added : May 29,2025
“Traveler” revisits Jamie’s Elsewhere’s signature blend of post-hardcore grit with a touch of sonic redecoration, sidestepping nostalgia in favor of something mildly more evolved. Released in May 2025, the track features Aaron Pauley—moonlighting from Of Mice & Men—alongside Scarpelli, Medeiros, and Spearman. The band, originally formed in Sacramento in 2005, reemerged in 2023 with “Paradise” following a prolonged absence. Music video directed by : Mike Matsui – Song featured on the album : Alchemical
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21 . Within Temptation & Jerry Heil – Sing Like A Siren
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Date Added : May 29,2025
“Sing Like A Siren” pairs Dutch symphonic metal veterans Within Temptation with Ukrainian pop figure Jerry Heil in a sonic encounter that blends theatrical guitars and electronic textures with melodic hooks. Sharon den Adel’s soaring vocals intertwine with Heil’s more restrained delivery, staging a dialogue between control and surrender, mythology and radio-readiness. The track flirts with folklore imagery while toeing the line between metal drama and pop clarity. Music video directed by : Maarten Welzen
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20 . Nailed To Obscurity – Overcast
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Date Added : May 29,2025
“Overcast” by Nailed To Obscurity sketches a world quietly crumbling under post-pandemic shadows, where dust settles on both cities and psyches. Carried by somber melodies and sudden shifts in force, the track lingers between restraint and eruption, tracing emotional disintegration with surgical precision. The band’s signature blend of death and doom persists, now cloaked in a meditative melancholy honed since their 2005 formation. Raimund Ennenga’s vocals hover between lament and defiance, supported by a lineup that prefers bruised atmospheres over brutality. Music video directed by : Sebastian Pielnik – Song featured on the album : Generation Of The Void
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19 . Electric Callboy – Revery
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Date Added : May 26,2025
Released in May 2025, “Revery” serves as Electric Callboy‘s second single of the year, stepping away from their earlier antics toward murkier terrain both sonically and visually. The track stretches just past the three-minute mark, ushering in a darker palette that swaps neon absurdity for slow-burning intensity. The video stars a tarantula named Harley, whose screen presence rivals the band’s own flair for theatrical tension. Meanwhile, Sum 41’s Frank Zummo steps in for summer duties on drums after David Friedrich exits in April 2025. Music video directed by : Schillobros.
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18 . Falling In Reverse – God Is A Weapon
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Date Added : May 26,2025
In “God Is a Weapon,” Falling In Reverse recruits Marilyn Manson for a collaboration that skews both theatrical and confrontational. Released in May 2025, the track fuses ethereal tones with heavier textures under the production of Smyth and frontman Ronnie Radke. Manson co-writes and delivers a verse, while the video leans into his early visual lexicon, trading subtlety for spectacle. The band, formed in 2008, continues its flair for mixing genres and provocation. Music video directed by : Jensen Noen
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17 . Alestorm – Killed To Death By Piracy
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Date Added : May 26,2025
“Killed To Death by Piracy” is a 2025 single by Scottish band Alestorm, released via Napalm Records. The track continues their tradition of pirate metal, fusing unruly vocals with absurd, often sardonic lyrics over thrashing instrumentation. Its frenetic animated video mirrors the track’s chaotic spirit, teetering between slapstick violence and nautical parody. Frontman Christopher Bowes uses the release to spotlight swan conservation, nodding to species like the Bewick’s and whooper swans. Music video directed by : Alex Henderson – Song featured on the album : The Thunderfist Chronicles
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16 . PRESIDENT – In The Name Of The Father
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Date Added : May 26,2025
Masked British outfit PRESIDENT opens its catalogue with “In The Name Of The Father,” a debut single where pitch-shifted vocals crash into metalcore guitar grit and existential dread. The track, released May 2025 via King Of Terrors/ADA, toys with theatrical aggression, fusing scream-laced breakdowns and introspective lyrics that toy with mortality and control. Rumors orbit the project’s anonymity, whispering of links to Charlie Simpson through business filings rather than press releases. Music video directed by : Blindeye |
15 . I Prevail – Violent Nature
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Date Added : May 26,2025
“Violent Nature” marks I Prevail’s first release after the exit of vocalist Brian Burkheiser. The track, characterized by Eric Vanlerberghe as fast, heavy, and aggressive, channels a volatile mix of internal chaos and personal reckoning. Released in May 2025 via Fearless Records, it continues the band’s evolution since their 2013 formation in Southfield, Michigan. I Prevail rose to prominence with a platinum cover of “Blank Space” and earned Grammy nods for “Bow Down” and “Trauma.” Music video directed by : Orie Mcginness
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14 . Mob Rules – Future Loom
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Date Added : May 26,2025
“Future Loom” trails Dendayar, a disillusioned temple guardian turned rebel figurehead in a crumbling dystopia, marching through the ruins of sacred doctrine with rhetorical fire. Mob Rules, active since 1994, lets melodic power metal frame yet another narrative arc, extending the lore built in previous records like a stubborn thread through worn tapestry. Released via RPM ROAR in May 2025, the track offers less salvation, more reckoning. Music video directed by : Rainer Zipp Fränzen – Song featured on the album : Rise Of The Ruler
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13 . The Rasmus – Creatures Of Chaos
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Date Added : May 26,2025
Released in March 2025, “Creatures of Chaos” offers a metallic lurch into outsider solidarity, where guitars gnash and a choir creeps in without asking permission. The track leans into a metalcore breakdown that arrives like a bar fight in an empty cathedral—chaotic, theatrical, and oddly precise. Produced by Marti Frederiksen, it tracks The Rasmus’s long-standing penchant for fusing dark melodic hooks with theatrics that sidestep melodrama. Music video directed by : Aleksei Kulikov – Song featured on the album : Weirdo
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12 . Heaven Shall Burn – Confounder
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Date Added : May 26,2025
“Confounder” presents Heaven Shall Burn in familiar terrain: ferocious riffs, melodic death metal undertones, and lyrics wielded like protest signs. The track confronts the pressure cooker of media influence and collective conformity, trading romantic despair for systemic critique. Touting themes of democratic accountability and communal resilience, it plants its feet firmly in the dirt of socio-political unrest. Released as the lead single from the upcoming album Heimat, “Confounder” doesn’t ask for agreement—it demands attention. Music video directed by : Janne Hansberg – Song featured on the album : Heimat
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19 . Electric Callboy – Revery
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Date Added : May 26,2025
Released in May 2025, “Revery” serves as Electric Callboy‘s second single of the year, stepping away from their earlier antics toward murkier terrain both sonically and visually. The track stretches just past the three-minute mark, ushering in a darker palette that swaps neon absurdity for slow-burning intensity. The video stars a tarantula named Harley, whose screen presence rivals the band’s own flair for theatrical tension. Meanwhile, Sum 41’s Frank Zummo steps in for summer duties on drums after David Friedrich exits in April 2025. Music video directed by : Schillobros.
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18 . Falling In Reverse – God Is A Weapon
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Date Added : May 26,2025
In “God Is a Weapon,” Falling In Reverse recruits Marilyn Manson for a collaboration that skews both theatrical and confrontational. Released in May 2025, the track fuses ethereal tones with heavier textures under the production of Smyth and frontman Ronnie Radke. Manson co-writes and delivers a verse, while the video leans into his early visual lexicon, trading subtlety for spectacle. The band, formed in 2008, continues its flair for mixing genres and provocation. Music video directed by : Jensen Noen
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17 . Alestorm – Killed To Death By Piracy
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Date Added : May 26,2025
“Killed To Death by Piracy” is a 2025 single by Scottish band Alestorm, released via Napalm Records. The track continues their tradition of pirate metal, fusing unruly vocals with absurd, often sardonic lyrics over thrashing instrumentation. Its frenetic animated video mirrors the track’s chaotic spirit, teetering between slapstick violence and nautical parody. Frontman Christopher Bowes uses the release to spotlight swan conservation, nodding to species like the Bewick’s and whooper swans. Music video directed by : Alex Henderson – Song featured on the album : The Thunderfist Chronicles
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16 . PRESIDENT – In The Name Of The Father
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Date Added : May 26,2025
Masked British outfit PRESIDENT opens its catalogue with “In The Name Of The Father,” a debut single where pitch-shifted vocals crash into metalcore guitar grit and existential dread. The track, released May 2025 via King Of Terrors/ADA, toys with theatrical aggression, fusing scream-laced breakdowns and introspective lyrics that toy with mortality and control. Rumors orbit the project’s anonymity, whispering of links to Charlie Simpson through business filings rather than press releases. Music video directed by : Blindeye |
15 . I Prevail – Violent Nature
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Date Added : May 26,2025
“Violent Nature” marks I Prevail’s first release after the exit of vocalist Brian Burkheiser. The track, characterized by Eric Vanlerberghe as fast, heavy, and aggressive, channels a volatile mix of internal chaos and personal reckoning. Released in May 2025 via Fearless Records, it continues the band’s evolution since their 2013 formation in Southfield, Michigan. I Prevail rose to prominence with a platinum cover of “Blank Space” and earned Grammy nods for “Bow Down” and “Trauma.” Music video directed by : Orie Mcginness
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14 . Mob Rules – Future Loom
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Date Added : May 26,2025
“Future Loom” trails Dendayar, a disillusioned temple guardian turned rebel figurehead in a crumbling dystopia, marching through the ruins of sacred doctrine with rhetorical fire. Mob Rules, active since 1994, lets melodic power metal frame yet another narrative arc, extending the lore built in previous records like a stubborn thread through worn tapestry. Released via RPM ROAR in May 2025, the track offers less salvation, more reckoning. Music video directed by : Rainer Zipp Fränzen – Song featured on the album : Rise Of The Ruler
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13 . The Rasmus – Creatures Of Chaos
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Date Added : May 26,2025
Released in March 2025, “Creatures of Chaos” offers a metallic lurch into outsider solidarity, where guitars gnash and a choir creeps in without asking permission. The track leans into a metalcore breakdown that arrives like a bar fight in an empty cathedral—chaotic, theatrical, and oddly precise. Produced by Marti Frederiksen, it tracks The Rasmus’s long-standing penchant for fusing dark melodic hooks with theatrics that sidestep melodrama. Music video directed by : Aleksei Kulikov – Song featured on the album : Weirdo
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12 . Heaven Shall Burn – Confounder
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Date Added : May 26,2025
“Confounder” presents Heaven Shall Burn in familiar terrain: ferocious riffs, melodic death metal undertones, and lyrics wielded like protest signs. The track confronts the pressure cooker of media influence and collective conformity, trading romantic despair for systemic critique. Touting themes of democratic accountability and communal resilience, it plants its feet firmly in the dirt of socio-political unrest. Released as the lead single from the upcoming album Heimat, “Confounder” doesn’t ask for agreement—it demands attention. Music video directed by : Janne Hansberg – Song featured on the album : Heimat
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11 . Lorna Shore – Oblivion
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Date Added : May 19,2025
“Oblivion” lands May 2025, stretching past eight minutes in a display of Lorna Shore’s densely layered deathcore stylings, stitched together by technical riffs and sweeping orchestrals. Will Ramos refers to it as a more sculpted reflection of their identity, where his vocal elasticity acts less like a flourish and more like controlled demolition. The lyrics pull from ecological ruin and humanity’s failings, without ever romanticizing either. Music video directed by : Dylan Hryciuk – Song featured on the album : I Feel The Everblack Festering Within Me
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10 . ADEPT – Heaven
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Date Added : May 19,2025
“Heaven” signals Adept’s first original track since 2016, slipping back into the fray with a familiar blend of post-hardcore grit and metalcore urgency. Wrapped in the polished chaos delivered by producer Henrik Udd and mastered by Thomas “Plec” Johansson, the song distills guilt, grief, and tentative absolution into tightly wound riffs. Released via Napalm Records, the track continues the trajectory marked by albums like “Another Year of Disaster.” Music video directed by : Pavel Trebukhin
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9 . Immortal Disfigurement – Gospel Of Annihilation
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Date Added : May 19,2025
“Gospel Of Annihilation” marks Immortal Disfigurement’s first release under the Seek & Strike label, unveiling an affinity for destruction dressed in apocalyptic prose. Released in May 2025, the single threads together symphonic deathcore with extreme metalcore leanings, leaning hard into themes of ruin over redemption. The track arrives with a music video shot at Painted Tiger Studios, pairing visual grit with sonic devastation. Music video directed by : Lance Gergar
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8 . Dance With The Dead – Whispers End (w/ Kat Von D)
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Date Added : May 19,2025
“Whispers End” pairs Dance With The Dead’s dark synth textures with Kat Von D’s vocals in a cut that leans heavily into gothic theatrics. The duo’s knack for stitching 80s synth nostalgia with distorted metal riffs—think Mötley Crüe riffs run through a Daft Punk filter—finds a suitably brooding canvas. The video opts for horror motifs, a visual nod to the band’s taste for macabre flair and atmospheric excess. Kat Von D calls the collaboration an honor, not a hobby. Music video directed by : J.T. Ibanez – Song featured on the album : Dark Matter
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7 . Slow Crush – Thirst
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Date Added : May 19,2025
Released in May 2025 via Pure Noise Records, “Thirst” marks another single from Belgian shoegaze trio Slow Crush. Following “Cherry” and “Hlýtt,” the track circles themes of craving, distraction, and the pursuit of inner equilibrium. A surge of distorted guitars collides with Isa Holliday’s restrained vocals, as the band continues threading love, identity, and fragile ties through a dense wall of sound. Listeners are invited, or gently coerced, to lose themselves in its haze. Music video directed by : Bobby Pook, Jodie Guest
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6 . DEXCORE – Trace
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Date Added : May 19,2025
“Trace” by DEXCORE stages the band in tailored suits beneath flickering surveillance footage, where vocalist kagami appears bound, adrift, and under watch. The video weaves in a ghostlike silhouette and hazy lighting filtered through CRT scan lines that nod more to analog dread than nostalgia. The track itself layers synthetic textures with clean vocals that concede space to well-placed growls, never settling into ease or aggression for too long. Song featured on the album : We Were Here
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5 . Tallah – A Primeval Detachment
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Date Added : May 19,2025
Intertwining guttural rage with jagged rhythms, “A Primeval Detachment” picks up where Tallah’s narrative threads last frayed, lurching from 2020’s “Matriphagy” and 2022’s “The Generation of Danger.” Released via Earache Records in 2025, the track stages a descent into emotional severance—less healing, more hacking away at what remains of primal bonds. Its title alone speaks volumes, even as the plot remains willfully elusive. Music video directed by : Max Portnoy – Song featured on the album : Primeval: Obsession // Detachment
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4 . Shadows Fall – Souls Devoured
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Date Added : May 19,2025
“Souls Devoured” marks Shadows Fall‘s second post-reunion single, emerging in May 2025 after “In the Grey.” Groove-laden riffs give way to verses tinged with black metal, crafting a sonic backdrop for lyrics steeped in infernos and infernal beings. Brian Fair shifts focus from the autobiographical to a fictional descent into survival-mode despair. The band melds thrash, melodic death, and black metal with the precision of long-honed Massachusetts spite. Music video directed by : Chris Klumpp
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3 . Moonlight Haze – Awakening
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Date Added : May 19,2025
Opening with cinematic orchestration and anchored by Chiara Tricarico’s commanding delivery, “Awakening” unfolds as a sleek exercise in transformation. Moonlight Haze pulls from their usual palette of symphonic power metal to musically sketch the cyclical churn of renewal, stated plainly in the lyric “Blooming like Spring, this is my Awakening.” The lineup—founded in 2018 by Tricarico and Giulio Capone—includes Alessandro Jacobi, Alberto Melinato, and Marco Falanga. Music video directed by : Marco Falanga, Beatrice Demori – Song featured on the album : Beyond
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2 . The Rasmus – Break These Chains (w/ Niko Vilhelm)
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Date Added : May 19,2025
“Break These Chains” pairs The Rasmus with Niko Vilhelm for a track steeped in the wreckage of toxic ties and the drawn-out mess of breaking free. Released via Better Noise Music and Playground Music in May 2025, it trades in emotional standoffs and lyrical self-confrontation, set to a rock palette that alternates smoldering angst and melodic defiance. The Rasmus, one of Finland’s longest-standing exports in melancholic anthems, brings their signature shadows; Vilhelm adds a serrated edge. Music video directed by : Aleksei Kulikov – Song featured on the album : Weirdo
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1 . Born Of Osiris – Through Shadows
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Date Added : May 19,2025
“Through Shadows” by Born Of Osiris parses the tug-of-war between endurance and surrender, threading light through personal upheaval without resorting to melodrama. The track, released via Sumerian Records in May 2025, clocks in at five minutes and trades in progressive metalcore tinged with digital textures and meticulous arrangement. The Chicago band—Ronnie Canizaro, Lee McKinney, Nick Rossi, Joseph Buras, and Cameron Losch—plays it technical but never ornamental. Music video directed by : Eric Dicarlo – Song featured on the album : Through Shadows
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(*) According to our own statistics, updated on June 15, 2025